Friday Night Fights--Out Of Your League Style!!

We've followed a crooked path during this session of Friday Night Fights. Since this is REPEAT-REHASH-REVENGE, we have to re-use a character from the previous week's fight.

So far I've gone from Hulk vs. Sandman to Sandman vs. Spider-Man to Spider-Man versus Daredevil (IN A FAT SUIT!!!!).

Which brings us to this week, wherein we find that sometimes, a street-level hero like Daredevil can get in a little bit over his head.

Before he was a mystical ninja, before everybody he ever knew died or went insane (except Foggy Nelson--we can't ever seem to get rid of that little pisher), before he became the broodiest goddamned hero on the planet, Matt Murdock was a happy-go-lucky, quippy hero--just Spider-Man with a different gimmick, essentially. And then he had to go and hang out with the big boys..

In the famous "Battle For The Baxter Building," the Fantastic Four have lost their powers, and Doctor Doom has taken over the Baxter Building and challenged the FF to a death duel. And while they Four try to get back into the Baxter Building to get one of Reed's doo-dads that will restore their powers, silly Daredevil has to try to keep Doom distracted:









So, distraction has failed pretty miserably. So then Daredevil makes a pretty huge mistake--he tries to engage Doom in hand-to-hand combat:






And Daredevil has to be rescued by by the human Ben Grimm. Yeah, he managed to keep Doomsy distracted, but that was pretty much a total fail, otherwise. No wonder they asked Spider-man to replace Johnny Storm and not Murdock...I guess Daredevil should have stuck to the fat suit...

As Spacebooger has been known to say--don't take a knife to a gun fight.

Stan, Jack and Vince Colletta show that a man has got to know his limitations in Fantastic Four #40 (1965).

OK, OK, I know, this isn't the equal of Daredevil in a fat suit--what could be?--but you should still vote for me this week. Because I don't think I'll be able to find a scene of Doctor Doom fighting someone for next week, so I'd better rack up the wins while I can...